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First Lord of the Admiralty, [1] or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, [2] was the title of the political head of the English and later British ...
The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was a member of the Cabinet. After 1806, the First Lord of the Admiralty was always a civilian, while the professional head of the navy came to be (and is still today) known as the First Sea Lord. [16] Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (1628–1964)
The lords commissioners of the Admiralty were the members of the Board of Admiralty, which exercised the office of Lord High Admiral when it was not vested in a single person. The commissioners were a mixture of politicians without naval experience and professional naval officers, the proportion of naval officers generally increasing over time.
In October 1911, Asquith appointed Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty, [149] and he took up official residence at Admiralty House. [150] He created a naval war staff [ 22 ] and, over the next two and a half years, focused on naval preparation, visiting naval stations and dockyards, seeking to improve morale, and scrutinising German naval ...
The Board of Admiralty (1628–1964) was established in 1628 [1] when Charles I put the office of Lord High Admiral into commission.As that position was not always occupied, the purpose was to enable management of the day-to-day operational requirements of the Royal Navy; at that point administrative control of the navy was still the responsibility of the Navy Board, established in 1546.
In 1964, the office of First Lord of the Admiralty was also abolished and the functions of the Lords Commissioners of Admiralty were transferred to the new Admiralty Board becoming a sub-committee (Navy) of the tri-service Defence Council of the United Kingdom. The ancient title of Lord High Admiral was resumed, by the sovereign personally. [4]
The Board of Admiralty and the Lord's Commissioners executing the office of the Lord High Admiral [2] The Board of Admiralty; First Commissioner and First Lord of the Admiralty. First Lord of the Admiralty, and member of the English government. Clerk of the Admiralty Messenger of the Admiralty, appointed, 1687 [3]
Russell became First Lord of the Admiralty and Senior Naval Lord [5] in the First Whig Junto in May 1694 and took a fleet out into the Mediterranean in June 1694, becoming the first English naval commander to spend the Winter at Cádiz (rather than sailing his squadron home in the autumn).